85 pages 2 hours read

Wilson Rawls

Summer of the Monkeys

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1976

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Answer Key

Chapters 1-4

Reading Check

1. Sally Gooden/his milk cow (Chapter 1)

2. 30 (Chapter 2)

3. Her playhouse (Chapter 3)

4. The Old Man of the Mountains (Chapter 3)

5. The chimpanzee (Chapter 4)

Short Answer

1. The story takes place in Oklahoma in the Ozarks on a farm near the Illinois River. (Chapter 1)

2. Daisy tells Jay Berry that the Old Man of the Mountains does not like it when people hurt animals and that the Old Man will curse them if Jay Berry hurts the monkeys. (Chapter 3)

3. Jay Berry wants to purchase a .22 rifle and a pony. (Chapter 2)

Chapters 5-8

Reading Check

1. The chimpanzee (Chapter 5)

2. Papa (Chapter 5)

3. Daisy’s leg surgery (Chapter 6)

4. Gandy (Chapter 6)

5. Two (Chapter 7)

6. Hydrophobia/Rabies (Chapter 8)

Short Answer

1. The chimpanzee and monkeys collectively attack Jay Berry and Rowdy, blocking their path and biting them. (Chapter 7)

2. Grandpa writes to the circus to develop a plan to catch the monkeys.